Picture one tall, narrow thing standing among much lower things — a stone tower on a castle wall, a church above the roofs. Two features do all the work: it is far taller than what surrounds it, and it takes up very little ground. Every other use of tower can be thought of as keeping one or both of those features: the shape (tall and thin) or the relation (rising far above everything nearby).
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原始詞典資料22 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Towername
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The Tower of London, especially seen as a place of imprisonment or punishment.
- Traitors should be sent to the Tower!
- 2
A habitational surname.; Alternative form of Towers.
- 3
A city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
Towernoun
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Denoting the system of weights used by the Saxon and Norman English kings in their minting of coins.
towernoun詞源 1/ˈtaʊ.ə(ɹ)/
- 1
A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.
- an observation tower, an isolated watch tower, a church tower, conning tower
- The valley is closed in at the lower end by the village, the church tower and a few roofs being visible through the trees; […]
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A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.
- signal tower, radio tower, cell tower
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A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.
- observation tower, watch tower
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A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.
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A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.
- The Sears Tower
- He'd taken her to see […] The Towering Inferno […] She imagined the screen itself must be hot as the burning San Francisco tower. […] She expected the screen to go up in a sheath of flame as the Glass Tower had, expected sparks to leap from the aluminum into the surrounding hayfields, […]
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An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
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A strong refuge; a defence.
- Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
- A group of giraffes is called a tower.
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businessEach of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.
- Suppliers compete separately for the towers and service integrator and management contract, which assists the government in the integration and operation of its services.
- Service towers are significant IT functional areas, such as infrastructure, applications, security, etc., each possibly managed by a different service provider. The service integrator role is crucial for coordinating and integrating these service towers.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
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cartomancyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe sixteenth named (trump or Major Arcana) card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
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cartomancyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
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A group of giraffes.
- Observe a tower of giraffes feeding on acacia leaves and oxpeckers combing giraffes' coats for parasites
- A tower of giraffes at the Houston Zoo.
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artscraftsglassblowingA metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.
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historicalA tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
- Lay trains of amorous intrigues / In towers, and curls, and periwigs.
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obsoleteHigh flight; elevation.
- Nigh in her sight The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour, Two Birds of gayest plume before him drove.
towerverb詞源 2
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To be very tall; to reach a high height.
- The office block towered into the sky.
- The tree will eventually tower taller than any of the others.
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To be high or lofty; to soar.
- My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
- When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could see No cliff beyond him in the sky, His pinions were bent droopingly — And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.
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obsoleteTo soar into.
- Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky
towernoun詞源 3/ˈtəʊ.ə(ɹ)/
- 1
One who tows.
- But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window[…]
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